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Commercial, Property and Personal Injury Newsletter
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Stolen but not prosecuted
Halsbury's Law Exchange.
Author of article: Felicity Gerry
This article appeared in Halsbury's Law Exchange blog. Below is a snippet taken from the article:
The BBC broadcast Stolen which they described as a “Fast-paced thriller about the trafficking of children who are brought to Britain for a better life but end up working outside of the system”. It had Twitter followers blubbing, one describing herself as all “snot and tears”.
Benji Wilson wrote in The Telegraph: “The worry was that Stolen(BBC One, Sunday), a feature-length single drama about child trafficking, might be just a little too preachy to stomach. The alarm bells jangled from the first frame, which was a white-on-black strap reading: ‘Once upon a time, each and every day in fact, children are being trafficked and put to work, unpaid, unprotected, unseen.’
If the first law of television is ‘show, don’t tell’ this was like being lectured by a po-faced Pecksniff, or Bono. In the event, Justin Chadwick’s film, starring Damian Lewis as a detective in the Human Trafficking Unit, stayed just on the right side of overbearing”.
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www.co.uk/stolen-but-not-prosecuted/
Felicity Gerry gives her views on the DSK affair
CPD Podcast: The Reformed Defence of Diminished Responsibility
William Harbage QC
Felicity Gerry
This podcast covers new and old law for killings on either side of the implementation date with specific focus on degrees of murder and child defendants. Click here to download.
Understanding rape sentencing: Ken Clarke and the ‘guilty plea’ debate
Felicity Gerry
This article appeared in both Halsbury's Law Exchange blog and Legal Week. Below is a snippet taken from the article:
A proposed consultation on raising credit for a guilty plea to 50% was overshadowed by comments made by the Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke, on a radio programme. Asked how such a proposal would affect rape cases, he replied that there were different categories of rape from teen sex to serious rape and ended up apologising for insulting rape victims. He was obviously badly briefed and he got the law wrong.
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